careció
[kaɾeˈsjo]
The verdict
“careció” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,440 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,440
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de carecer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-carecio · careció · Spanish
careció · rank #64,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,440
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH casquete
Nearest frequency peer: casquete (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “careció”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cansaba
cansaba
35,564 corpus weight
- cantata
cantata
35,563 corpus weight
- careció
careció
35,561 corpus weight
- casquete
casquete
35,560 corpus weight
- caterva
caterva
35,559 corpus weight
- Caupolicán
Caupolicán
35,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “careció” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | careció |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaɾeˈsjo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “careció” en español
Rare enough to double-check
careció is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,440 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kaɾeˈsjo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de carecer.".
careció has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is careció, spelled C-A-R-E-C-I-Ó.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de carecer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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